"Dad" is a comedy-drama family film about a man's relationship with his elderly father and his teenage son. These three generations of fathers and sons are superbly depicted by Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, and Ethan Hawke. The group had skillful direction, production, and screenwriting by Gary [..]

"The Chosen" is a television series whose subject is the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. Director-creator Dallas Jenkins ("The Resurrection of Gavin Stone" 2017) has put together a unique view of New Testament Biblical events of Jesus' life through personal experiences of people around him, set [..]

"Cousins" is a romantic comedy about two people whose uncle and mother marry, making them step-cousins. They become romantically involved, despite being married to other people. Director Joel Schumacher ("St. Elmo's Fire" 1985) and screenwriter Stephen Metcalfe came up with an empty story billed as a [..]

"Out Cold" is a dark comedy about a butcher and his wife whose marital problems reach a boiling point, or should I say a freezing point. Director Malcolm Mowbray ("A Private Function" 1984) guided this film with good pacing and plenty of laughs, from a well-written screenplay [..]

"Mister Roberts" is the story of a supply officer aboard a cargo ship in World War II who yearns for a transfer to a battle zone but is thwarted by the mean-spirited captain. Mister Roberts acts as a buffer between him and the crew. This classic [..]

When a gun fanatic (John Dall) and a carnival show sharp shooter (Peggy Cummins) get together, they soon become an expert pair of bank robbers in "Gun Crazy." B-movie director Joseph H. Lewis and screenwriters Dalton Trumbo and MacKinlay Kantor created a fast-moving crime film noir that [..]

The third pairing of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder was in the comedy-thriller "See No Evil, Hear No Evil." It tells the story of a blind man (Pryor) and a deaf man (Wilder) teaming up to foil the activities of a group of murderous thieves. Director [..]

A classic George Bernard Shaw play received first class treatment on the British Broadcasting System. "Arms and the Man," a satire on the romanticizing of love and war and the human condition, was expertly directed by James Cellan Jones in this made-for-television movie. Producer Shawn Sutton [..]

The Best Picture of 1989 is....."Driving Miss Daisy." It is the story of a friendship between an elderly Jewish widow in Atlanta and her African-American driver, superbly directed by Bruce Beresford ("Crimes of the Heart" 1986), from a screenplay by Alfred Uhry, adapted from his own 1987 [..]

"Blackboard Jungle" is a drama about a man who takes a job as an English teacher in an interracial and inner-city school, and experiences difficulties with erratic behavior by some of the students. He is urged by his wife and others to seek other employment, but he [..]